# Do changes on 'temporary' record - save back to table when finished **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 28, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-changes-on-temporary-record-save-back-to-table-when-finished/121568 "2007-11-28T23:28:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harryv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@harryv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harryv)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-changes-on-temporary-record-save-back-to-table-when-finished/121568/1 "2007-11-28T23:28:25Z")
Hello I am doing an app, where the user can edit a ‘Story’. Each story contains a number of Sections (that in return contains a number of Routes each, whatsoever). Using AJAX the user can can choose to edit a Story, and within the same page edit, add and remove Sections. That is no problem at all, except: None of the changes the user does, should actually be saved into the database before he chooses to, by clicking a link or whatsoever. So even though the given Story is being added and Sections being added/removed/etc, the database should still hold the old values. Any ideas how I could do this? Regards, Harry ---
**Author:** ![harryv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@harryv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harryv)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-changes-on-temporary-record-save-back-to-table-when-finished/121568/2 "2007-11-28T23:30:10Z")
On Nov 28, 2007 4:27 PM, harryv [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Any ideas how I could do this? > You might try acts\_as\_versioned. [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActsAsVersioned](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActsAsVersioned) – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)